According to an AFP report on July 6, Russia said on the 6th that it has occupied two more settlements in eastern Ukraine, one in the Donetsk region and the other in the Kharkiv region. Ukraine did not immediately comment on Russia's statement. Over the past year, Moscow has been struggling to advance on the front lines and is making full use of its strengths against the Ukrainian army, which has been stretched for too long and understaffed. On the 6th, Russia said it had occupied the village of Piedubne in Donetsk and the village of Sobolivka in Kharkiv. Before the conflict broke out, there were about 500 people in the village of Piedubny, which was only 7 km away from the important Dnepropetrovsk region in central Ukraine. According to the American War Research Institute's battlefield map, the village of Sobolivka is located about 3 km west of the town of Kupyansk, outside the area Russia previously claimed control.

According to an AFP report on July 6, Russia said on the 6th that it has occupied two more settlements in eastern Ukraine, one in the Donetsk region and the other in the Kharkiv region. Ukraine did not immediately comment on Russia's statement. Over the past year, Moscow has been struggling to advance on the front lines and is making full use of its strengths against the Ukrainian army, which has been stretched for too long and understaffed. On the 6th, Russia said it had occupied the village of Piedubne in Donetsk and the village of Sobolivka in Kharkiv. Before the conflict broke out, there were about 500 people in the village of Piedubny, which was only 7 km away from the important Dnepropetrovsk region in central Ukraine. According to the American War Research Institute's battlefield map, the village of Sobolivka is located about 3 km west of the town of Kupyansk, outside the area Russia previously claimed control.